Thing 14: Online videos

I've just finished watching An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube.  It's been a painfully process.  Angola internet services are not so good and it took forever to download the whole video.  I watched in segments, in several days, as I could not afford spending the time, waiting for the video to download.  I could not stop thinking (and talking) about the video in between the segments, and I am so glad I've lasted till the end. This video is thought provoking.  Michael Wesch strikes me as not only a great passionate professor, but a fun presenter. I loved the way he started the presentation with the story about the guy from New Jersey, tracking back the history of the webcam phenomenon.  I also watched his video Web 2.0... The Machine is US/ing US, which, to me, was a brilliant summary of all these tools (Things!) that we use in social media - it made a lot of sense to me as it touched on all of the tools we've been exploring in this course.  His conclusion that "media mediate human relationships," brought some higher order thinking to the use of all these Things.  Thing 14’s use of Michael Wesch’s anthropological work was a brilliant addition to 23 Things.  What a joy!